Using Java 1.2, we successfully created a virtual environment in which multiple users could simultaneously manipulate characters upon a two-dimensional world-map which contained a variety of terrain types and items, through a client-server connection, via the TCP protocol. One of the most exciting features of our world was the inclusion of 'agents', or non-human characters that could be programmed by non-system users with an adequate knowledge of Java, to perform an open-ended variety of tasks.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Markle, David Gates
• Israelian, Jeffrey Nathan

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 99C032M

Advisor

• Claypool, Mark L.
• Heineman, George T.

Year

• 1999

Date created

• 1999-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Computer Science

Rights statement

• In Copyright

License

• All rights reserved